Ty Seidule

{{Short description|American historian and former army officer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}}{{Use American English|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =  | name = Ty Seidule | image = Ty-Seidule.jpeg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = James Tyrus Seidule | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|07|03}}{{citation needed|date=April 2023|reason=Unable to find an existing citation that mentions his date and place of birth}} | birth_place = Alexandria, Virginia, US{{citation needed|date=April 2023|reason=Unable to find an existing citation that mentions is data and place of birth}} | awards =  | alma_mater = {{ubl | Washington and Lee University | Ohio State University}} | thesis_title = Morale in the American Expeditionary Forces During World War I | thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/619259761 | thesis_year = 1997 | doctoral_advisor = Allan R. Millett | academic_advisors = | influences =  | discipline = History | sub_discipline = American military history | workplaces = {{plainlist| *United States Military Academy *Hamilton College }} | main_interests = {{hlist | Robert E. Lee | military history of the American Civil War | racial relations in the US military}} | influenced = | module = {{Infobox military person | embed = yes | branch = United States Army | branch_label = Branch | service_years = {{circa|1984}} –2020 | rank = Brigadier general | unit = | commands = | battles = | battles_label = | awards = }} }}

'''James Tyrus Seidule''' (born 1962){{citation needed|date=April 2023|reason=Unable to find an existing citation that mentions his date and place of birth}} is a retired United States Army brigadier general, the former head of the history department at the United States Military Academy,<ref>{{cite web |title=Department of History Faculty |website=United States Military Academy |url=https://www.westpoint.edu/academics/academic-departments/history/staff-and-faculty |access-date=12 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323092922/http://www.westpoint.edu/academics/academic-departments/history/staff-and-faculty |archive-date=23 March 2019}}</ref> the first professor emeritus of history at West Point, and the inaugural Joshua Chamberlain Fellow at Hamilton College.<ref name="thayer">{{cite web |title=Brigadier General Ty Seidule, Ph.D. |url=https://www.thayerleadership.com/people/faculty/brigadier-general-retired-ty-seidule-ph.d |website=Thayer |access-date=12 February 2021}}</ref> Seidule is also the Presidential Advisor to The National WWII Museum in New Orleans and a fellow at New America.<ref name="thayer"/> In February 2021, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin appointed Seidule as one of four representatives of the US Department of Defense to the Commission on the Naming of Items of the Department of Defense that Commemorate the Confederate States of America or Any Person Who Served Voluntarily with the Confederate States of America, including US Army installations named for Confederate soldiers.<ref name="Austin_CSA commission">{{cite web |title=Statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on the Department's Representatives to the Congressionally-Mandated Commission on the Naming of Items in the Department of Defense That Commemorate the Confederate States of America |url=https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2502459/statement-by-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iii-on-the-departments-represe/ |publisher=US Department of Defense |access-date=12 February 2021 |date=12 February 2021}}</ref>

== Early life and later career == Ty Seidule was born in Alexandria, Virginia, on July 3, 1962.{{citation needed|date=April 2023|reason=Unable to find an existing citation that mentions his date and place of birth}} He was raised just blocks away from the home of Confederate States Army commander Robert E. Lee, a fact that would later play a prominent role in his academic career.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Young|first=Patrick|date=2021-02-08|title=Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule|url=https://thereconstructionera.com/robert-e-lee-and-me-by-ty-seidule/|access-date=2021-07-03|website=The Reconstruction Era|language=en-US}}</ref> He also attended Robert E. Lee Elementary School (which later became the Nannie J. Lee Memorial Recreation Center, named after a prominent African-American resident,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://m.facebook.com/AlexandriaVAGov/posts/10158417452480757 |title=Black History Month |work=City of Alexandria |via=Facebook |date=February 10, 2020}}</ref> after the school was closed in 1978 and the property transferred to the city parks department<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.alexandriava.gov/uploadedFiles/recreation/info/PRCCOMBINEDREPORTSAPRIL202017.pdf |title=Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities Program and Service Impacts |date=April 6, 2017 |work=City of Alexandria, Virginia |page=15 |quote=The Lee Center served as the Robert E. Lee Elementary School from 1954 until 1978. In that year, it was converted to a multi-use recreation and community center for Alexandria. The Nannie J. Lee Recreation Center opened in 1977.}}</ref>) in Alexandria, and later earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington and Lee University in 1984.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Charlottesville panel features West Point professor – The Miscellany News|url=https://miscellanynews.org/2017/10/04/news/charlottesville-panel-features-west-point-professor/|access-date=2021-07-03|language=en-US}}</ref> He later obtained an MA in 1994 and PhD in 1997 in history from Ohio State University.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ty Seidule - Faculty Directory|url=https://www.hamilton.edu//academics/our-faculty/directory/faculty-detail|access-date=2021-07-03|website=Hamilton College|language=en}}</ref> While still teaching at the military academy, Seidule continued to work on his doctoral degree in Ohio State graduate program under the direction of professor Allan R. Millett.<ref name="thesis-seidule-1997">{{cite thesis |title=Morale in the American Expeditionary Forces During World War I |date=1997 |institution= Ohio State University |degree=PhD |last=Seidule |first=James Tyrus |id={{ProQuest|619259761}}}}</ref>

Upon completion of the college ROTC program at Washington and Lee University in 1984,<ref name="hamilton">{{cite web |url=https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/ty-seidule-military-historian-commencement-speaker |title=Seidule Urges Graduates to "Know Your Own History" |work=Hamilton College |first=Holly |last=Foster |date=May 22, 2021}}</ref> Seidule became an officer in the United States Army.<ref name=":0" /> Seidule served for 36 years, starting as a tank platoon leader in Germany.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About {{!}} Ty Seidule|url=https://www.tyseidule.com/|access-date=2021-07-03|website=Ty Seidule|language=en}}</ref> His commands include a cavalry unit in the 82nd Airborne Division during the Gulf War, as well as 3rd Battalion, 81st Armor Regiment. His staff positions included crisis planning for NATO in Kosovo and North Macedonia.<ref name="thayer" />

After receiving his master's degree in history from Ohio State University in 1994, Seidule was appointed an assistant professor of history at the United States Military Academy while remaining on active duty in the army.<ref name="thesis-seidule-1997" /> Seidule retired from the military academy and the US Army as a brigadier general in 2020.

In 2020, Seidule was appointed the Chamberlain Fellow and visiting professor of history at Hamilton College. He is also a fellow in the International Security program at New America.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ty Seidule|url=http://newamerica.org/our-people/ty-seidule/|access-date=2021-07-03|website=New America|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ty Seidule {{!}} Author Bio|url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/|access-date=2021-07-03|website=US Macmillan|language=en-US}}</ref> He is a professor emeritus of history at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he taught and was the head of the history department for two decades during his time as an officer in the US Army.<ref>{{Cite web|title=West Point Association of Graduates|url=https://www.westpointaog.org/page.aspx?pid=4678|access-date=2021-07-03|website=www.westpointaog.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Inspiration Week Begins with Grant Statue Unveiling {{!}} United States Military Academy West Point|url=https://www.westpoint.edu/news/press-releases/inspiration-week-begins-grant-statue-unveiling|access-date=2021-07-03|website=www.westpoint.edu}}</ref>

In May 2021, Seidule was awarded an honorary doctorate and was the commencement speaker at Hamilton College.<ref name="hamilton" />

== Publications == * {{cite journal |title = 'Treason is Treason:' Civil War Memory at West Point | journal = The Journal of Military History | date = April 2012 | volume = 76 | issue = 2 | pages = 427–452 | id = {{EBSCOhost|73944469}} }} * {{Citation | editor-last = Rogers | editor-first = Clifford J. | editor2-last = Seidule | editor2-first = Ty | editor3-last = Watson | editor3-first = Samuel J. | title = The West Point History of the Civil War | series = The West Point History of Warfare Series | volume = 1 | publisher = Simon and Schuster | date = 2014 | isbn = 978-1476782621 }} * ''[http://www.westpointhistoryofwarfare.com/ The West Point History of Warfare]'', editors Clifford J. Rogers and Ty Seidule, four volumes, 71-chapter enhanced e-book (New York: Rowan Technology Solutions, 2015). * {{Citation | editor-last = Seidule | editor-first = Ty | editor2-last = Whitt | editor2-first = Jacqueline E. | title = Stand Up and Fight! The Creation of U.S. Security Organizations, 1942-2005 | publisher = US Army War College Press | date = 2015 | url = https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/stand-up-and-fight-the-creation-of-u-s-security-organizations-1942-2005/ }} * {{Citation | editor-last = Rogers | editor-first = Clifford J. | editor2-last = Seidule | editor2-first = Ty | editor3-last = Stapleton | editor3-first = John M. Jr. | title = The West Point History of Warfare: Medieval | series = The West Point History of Warfare Series | publisher = Rowan Technologies Solutions | date = 2016 | url = https://app.rowan.nyc/products/the-west-point-history-of-warfare-medieval }} * {{Citation | editor-last = Rogers | editor-first = Clifford J. | editor2-last = Seidule | editor2-first = Ty | editor3-last = Waddell | editor3-first = Steve R. | title = The West Point History of World War II, Vol. 2 | series = The West Point History of Warfare Series | volume = 3 | publisher = Simon and Schuster | date = 2016 | isbn = 978-1476782775 }} * {{Citation | last = Seidule | first = Ty | chapter = From Slavery to Black Power: Racial Intolerance at West Point, 1778-2014 | title = Intolerance: Political Animals and Their Prey | year = 2017 | editor-last = Tully | editor-first = Robert | editor2-last = Chilton | editor2-first = Bruce | publisher = Hamilton Books | location = New York | isbn = 978-0761869153 }} * {{Citation | editor-last = Rogers | editor-first = Clifford J. | editor2-last = Seidule | editor2-first = Ty | editor3-last = Watson | editor3-first = Samuel J. | title = The West Point History of the American Revolution | series = The West Point History of Warfare Series | volume = 4 | publisher = Simon and Schuster | date = 2017 | isbn = 978-1476782751 }} * {{Citation | title = Black Power Cadets: How African American Students Defeated President Nixon's Confederate Monument and Changed West Point, 1971-1976 | journal = Hudson River Valley Review | volume = 36 | issue = 1 | date = Autumn 2019 | pages = 55–82 | url = https://www.hudsonrivervalley.org/documents/401021/1608258/HRVR+36.1%2C+Autumn+2019%2C+full+text/5ab73c2a-2f94-4243-8c4e-3c24f84429d5 }} * {{Citation | last = | first = | year = 2021 | title = Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause | publisher = St. Martin's Press | publication-place = New York | isbn = 978-1250239266 }}

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